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Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3902-4
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200 pages
October 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors.

1. The Visual Arts and the Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Caroline Van Eck and Stijn Bussels).

2. 8216;Theatricality’ in Tapestries and Mystery Plays and its Afterlife in Painting (Laura Weigert).

3. Making the Most of Theatre and Painting: The Power of Tableaux Vivants in Joyous Entries from the Southern Netherlands (1458–1635) (Stijn Bussels).

4. Parrhasios and the Stage Curtain: Theatre, Metapainting and the Idea of Representation in the Seventeenth Century (Emmanuelle Hénin).

5. In Front of the Work of Art: The Question of Pictorial Theatricality in Italian Art, 1400–1700 (Marc Bayard).

6. Staging Bianca Capello: Painting and Theatricality in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Elsje van Kessel).

7. The Performing Venue: The Visual Play of Italian Courtly Theatres in the Sixteenth Century (Lex Hermans).

8. Dancing Statues and the Myth of Venice: Ancient Sculpture on the Opera Stage (Wendy Heller).

9. How to Become a Picture: Theatricality as Strategy in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraits (Hanneke Grootenboer).

10. Staging Ruins: Paestum and Theatricality (Sigrid de Jong).

11. Oprar sempre come in teatro: The Rome of Alexander VII as the Theatre of Papal Self-Representation (Maarten Delbeke).

12. Ut pictura hortus/ut theatrum hortus: Theatricality and French Picturesque Garden Theory (1771–95) (Bram Van Oostveldt).

13. ‘What do I See?’ The Order of Looking in Lessing's Emilia Galotti (Kati Röttger).

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